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ArticleIntensive care medicine2009

Changes in HDL-associated apolipoproteins relate to mortality in human sepsis and correlate to monocyte and platelet activation.

Stefan Barlage, Carsten Gnewuch, Gerhard Liebisch, Zsuzsanna Wolf, Franz-Xaver Audebert, Thomas Glück, Dieter Fröhlich, Bernhard K Krämer, Gregor Rothe, Gerd Schmitz

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Article in Intensive care medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Stefan BarlageInstitute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University of Regensburg, 93042, Regensburg, Germany.
Carsten Gnewuch
Gerhard Liebisch
Zsuzsanna Wolf
Franz-Xaver Audebert
Thomas Glück
Dieter Fröhlich
Bernhard K Krämer
Gregor Rothe
Gerd Schmitz
University of Regensburg · DERuhr University Bochum · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveLipoproteins modulate vascular cell function in inflammation. In this study, we analyzed whether plasma concentrations of lipoproteins and apolipoproteins in human sepsis are related to patient survival and the activation of blood monocytes and platelets.

designObservational study.

settingMedical and surgical intensive care units (ICU) of a university hospital. PATIENTS: 151 consecutive patients after sepsis criteria had been met for the first time.

interventionsNone. MEASUREMENTS: Plasma lipoproteins, apolipoproteins, platelet CD62P-expression, monocyte HLA-DR-expression, SAPS II-scores (Simplified Acute Physiology Score) and 30-day-mortality were recorded.

resultsTotal cholesterol, high-density-lipoprotein (HDL) and low-density-lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, apolipoprotein (apo)-AI and apo-B were all found to be significantly lower in non-survivors than in survivors. In contrast to other (apo)lipoproteins, apo-AI and HDL cholesterol further decreased in non-survivors during the ICU stay. Logistic regression analysis revealed apo-AI to be an independent predictor of 30-day-mortality. A significant inverse correlation was found for apo-AI/HDL-cholesterol and platelet activation. Later in the course of the disease, HLA-DR expression on monocytes correlated positively to apo-AI and apo-CI concentrations and inversely to the apo-E concentration.

conclusionLow apo-AI is independently related to 30-day mortality in human sepsis and the decrease in apo-AI/HDL cholesterol correlates to increased platelet activation. Moreover, changes in apolipoproteins supposed to modulate lipopolysaccharide effects, such as apo-CI and apo-E, correlate to monocyte activation.

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Apolipoprotein A-IApolipoproteins BLipoproteins, HDLSepsisAdultAgedAPACHEApolipoproteinsCholesterolCholesterol, HDLCholesterol, LDLFemaleGermanyHLA-DR AntigensHumansHypolipoproteinemiasApolipoprotein A-IApolipoproteinsApolipoproteins BCholesterolCholesterol, HDLCholesterol, LDLHLA-DR AntigensLipoproteins, HDLP-Selectin

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